Dallas Mavericks Blog

Owner Cuban may have a new mission — the college football playoff system

Mark Cuban is just like everybody else in the world – he doesn’t like the fact that college football doesn’t have a playoff system.

The difference, with bowl season starting on Saturday, is that Cuban is influential enough and has enough connections that he can float his ideas on a grander stage than most folks.

Before Wednesday’s game, he talked openly about how he’d like to pitch a playoff system to select college presidents in BCS conferences. But he admits it’s a long, long way from becoming reality.

“I’m actively pursuing it, but it’s in only in the exploratory stage,” he said.
Cuban has been reading the book “Death to the BCS” and it has gotten him thinking about how a lucrative playoff system could change colleges, and perhaps even lower tuitions that have skyrocketed in recent years.

Cuban also touched on other topics, including the Rangers’ loss of Cliff Lee in free agency and how he knew the Rangers were in trouble.

“If the agent won’t say, ‘Hey we want to close this deal and this is what we need,’ that’s (trouble),” he said.

Cuban added that he hasn’t ruled out the idea of baseball ownership, even though he has lost out on the Cubs and Rangers.

“It depends on the team and the market,” he said. “Right now, I can live with it or I can live without it.”

There continue to be rumors that Cuban is interested in acquiring part or total ownership of the Stars, although he has maintained his main motivation for that would be gaining more than the 50-percent control he currently has in American Airlines Center.